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Fear voting must end

Letter to the Editor

Updated:
10/09/2012 02:13:00 PM EDT

Thanks to Steve Baker for an excellent op-ed piece in Sunday's paper on our duopoly of a political system. I couldn't have said it better myself. Both of these candidates for president are pathetic offerings. I can see no change until people stop voting against the party they fear and for the change they want.

To me, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are offering any solutions, just lip service while they take the corporate cash. The TV attack ads, along with a presidential debate that was more a battle of dishonest accusations than any real discussion, are just a method to reinforce the fears of voters.

I believe this fear voting is the result of the increasing division in national politics and is by design. It keeps folks voting left or right and insures that the national political conversation never gets far off script. Third party candidates and the real issues they will expose are a definite threat to the establishment -- this is clearly the reason they are kept out of the debates. Without third parties and the more truthful, relevant conversation they will produce, we are in big trouble. I implore voters to consider a third party and abandon their fear. How much worse does it have to get before we demand better? STEVE IZZOBROGUE

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